Posted on 05/23/2017 4:37:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The isolation that came to Big Sur this year when wet weather closed several roads has deepened with a giant mudslide across Highway 1, just south of the small community of Gorda (Monterey County).
A quarter-mile-wide wall of mud and rock barreled over an oceanfront stretch of road Saturday night, fortunately on a section of the highway where there was no traffic because the area was already closed due to smaller slides.
The new slide is certain to postpone the opening of Highway 1 at Big Sur’s southern end, a link to the dramatic coastline that was expected to open in mid-June.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
“Is that new beach or did the coastline stick out there before the slide ?”
I suspect that the white ‘line’ just above the coast was a road...and now some of that road is, how do you say, ‘all gone’, based on that picture.
My bad. Sorry.
Wow! Beautiful art!
“There is one. Nacimiento-Fergusson Road.”
Yes there is, and I’ve driven it. While it’s a breathtaking drive, particularly the switchbacks that take you down to highway 1, but it’s not a road that you use to commute to work. You have to go all the way down to Hwy 46 to find a major east-west highway and it takes you to Paso Robles and 101. Or as you suggest, you can take Jolon Rd. From Mission San Antonio. Back when I was young and Vietnam was going on, you had to watch out for tanks crossing Jolon Rd.
Many years ago, we were coming South on Hwy 1, at the end of a long vacation, and grew tired of it. The map showed a way to get to 101 just South of Lucia so we took it. :)
Shirley was driving when we got pulled over for a warning by the MP’s on Hunter Liggett.
True enough. That's also called "Green Valley Road".
There's a backroads way from Cambria to Paso, but a portion of it is still dirt road.
And up on the Southern Big Sur Coast, there's a way to get from just a little ways North of Gorda to the Coast Ridge, and then over to Naciemento-Fergusson.
Back in those days Willow Creek road (from the Coast, near Gorda) was more often called Willow Creek Los Burros Road, with the Los Burros portion going down the East side of the ridge into the Hunter Liggett, although I can;t say I ever traveled it, and wouldn't want to try. At it's best it was one bad road, or so I've been told. There were a few other jeep tails too, including one that used to tie in from the Southern end of the Coast Ridge Road to Bryson -- but I've never traversed it, and don't think it's any longer possibly to do so, not for a few decades, by now.
It is the most beautiful road trip in America just as the Inside Passage is the finest boat ride.
Water so cold, no one but sea lions would want to go into it.
So the slide is between Nepenthe and Esalen? Is Esalen accessible from the south?
The painting is beautiful.
Once, arriving at Esalen after midnight after taking a taxi from Monterey, talking to the taxi driver along the way, he had never been there and wanted to get in the hot tubs; so, as I checked in, I told the person at the gate, asked if he could, and she gave him some towels and instructions and there he went. I hit the sack myself, tired after flying from the East Coast--never saw the cabbie again or found out how that went.
Nepenthe is great! But my favorite is the Post Ranch Inn.
I’m actually not sure what this means? What is image 200806523 ?
Same spot. 1972
Thought it might be. I lived in Carmel Valley back then and anytime Hiway 1 was closed it made the local radar.
From comment nbr 38, this link
http://www.californiacoastline.org/
has a series of California Coastal Road photographs from south to north.
Photograph nbr 200806523 and 200806524 shows this part of the road BEFORE the slope collapsed.
The portion that recently slide, was always a bit ominous --one of those 'it's just a matter of time' kind of things.
Blown away by your paintings. The attention to detail is phenomenal.
Hope they got permits to move that dirt! Coastal commission approval, wetlands permits, etc...
Cool site. You can put the link and pics on your home page here FR.
Coastal commission can sue the Highway Department for damages.
Lawyers on both sides suck up the (our) money.
Croney kick-backs for the clean up work.
Probably turn it into a superfund site.
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